Are you Helming it the right way? Helm challenges and its solutions

Helm charts have been the most popular way of deployment in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Although the Helm CLI is powerful and robust, it becomes challenging when it comes to debugging your microservices deployed with Helm. This talk addresses the challenges faced by the Helm users when deploying, updating and debugging their microservices in a Kubernetes cluster and demonstrates how to manage your helm apps using Devtron.

1. Are you helming
the right way?

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2. Speaker Intro

Solutions Architect at Devtron with 11+ years of
experience in Tech Industry. Also an active
contributor and maintainer of Devtron project on
Github.

Twitter: @_prakarsh
Github: github.com/prakarsh-dt
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/prakarsh


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3. Contents
-What is Helm?
-Challenges faced by Helm users?
-Introduction to Devtron
-How Devtron helps you overcome the
challenges
-Devtron Integrations
-Q&A
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4. What is Helm?


-Most popular package manager for Kubernetes
-Helm chart is a collection templates that describe
a set of K8s resources
-Package, configure, distribute and deploy
applications
-Chart Repository is a location where the charts
are stored (slowly being replaced by OCI
registries)


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5. Challenges faced by Helm users?


-Complex access management for team members
-No active monitoring of the resources
-No proper grouping of resources
-Referring to charts Readme again and again is a hassle
-No unified interface for managing/monitoring helm apps on all
clusters.
-No out of the box support for temporary hibernation of
workloads
-No Deployment values comparison
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6. Devtron - At a glance
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●Open source
●Deep integration with multiple
cloud native tools
●Unified Dashboard
●Deploy - Observe - Monitor

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Typography
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Complex Access management for team members

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No Active monitoring of the resources

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No Proper grouping of resources

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Referring to charts Readme again & again is a hassle

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No Unified interface for managing Helm Apps across all clusters

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No Out of the box support for Hibernation of workloads

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No Deployment values comparison

14. More Devtron features
and Integrations
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●Various integrations support such as CI/CD
(Integrates argocd and gitops), Security etc
●SSO Login support with Google, MS, LDAP,
Github and more.
●Deep linking with External Apps
●Deployment metrics

15. About Devtron Project
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Github: www.github.com/devtron-labs/devtron
Discord: https://discord.devtron.ai
Website: https://devtron.ai
Documentation: https://docs.devtron.ai


Some Enterprises using Devtron for Kubernetes
Deployments

●Delhivery
●Bharatpe
●Livspace
●Ather Energy
●Xoxodays
●E&Y India
●Unity Bank

16. Questions ?

17. Thank you!
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